Miguel Rio Branco. Maldicidade - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3836572338 ISBN 13 : 9783836572330

Editeur : TASCHEN, 2019

Synopsis

<p>In Maldicidade, the city never sleeps. By dawn or dusk, in New York, Havana, Salvador da Bahia, or Tokyo, it is an environment fraught with yearning, aching with solitude, and fretful with fortunes never made. This searing urban portrait from visual artist Miguel Rio Branco draws upon his itinerant early years as the son of diplomats to reveal the common threads of struggle and loneliness in metropolises around the world.</p><p>The images are impeccably captured, but the pictures are not always pretty. Rio Branco is not interested in documenting historic city landmarks, an impressive skyline, or the aspirational dreams that soar up towards it. Instead, he focuses his camera on the city’s refuse and margins—on that which it has thrown away and on those it has cast aside and disappointed. In stark frames or soft impressions, it is street sleepers, beggars, prostitutes, stray dogs, smashed cars, and shattered glass that characterize his urban impressions.</p><p>While subtle details reveal the specificity of place, it is the commonality of urban experience at the heart of Rio Branco’s project. Light on local context or explanatory narrative, the images are instead meticulously arranged into one redolent sequence of a universal city. Working as if in the cutting studio, Rio Branco excels in the rhythm and succession of pictures, crafting evocative patterns of motif (decrepit buildings, lone figures, smashed-up cars); color (rich reds, dusty pinks, stark whites and blues); and form (an anguished street sleeper beside an ecstatic statue of a saint). Throughout, occasional pictures of women are proffered as sensual, hopeful reprieve, interspersing the grit and the grime in commanding portraits or up-close, supple nudes.</p><p>At once incisive in its message and lyrical in its arrangement, Maldicidade focuses attention on the city’s ineludible magnetism, as much as on its alienation and inhumanity. Biting, bare-faced, and achingly beautiful, it is a collection in which all city dwellers will find something of themselves, or something they long to escape.</p>

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Paulo Herkenhoff es comisario de exposiciones y crítico independiente. De 2003 a 2006, fue director del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Río de Janeiro. Anteriormente, fue curador adjunto en el Departamento de Pintura y Escultura del Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York y comisario jefe del Museo de Arte Moderno de Río de Janeiro. También fue director artístico de la 24ª Bienal de São Paulo y curador del Pabellón de Brasil en la 47ª Bienal de Venecia. Herkenhoff ha publicado textos sobre artistas como Raul Mourão, Guillermo Kuitca, Rebecca Horn, Julião Sarmento y Louise Bourgeois. Vive y trabaja en Río de Janeiro.

Nacido en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (España) en 1946, Miguel Rio Branco es un fotógrafo, pintor, cineasta y artista multimedia afincado actualmente en Araras, Río de Janeiro. Su trabajo se puede ver en las colecciones de los principales museos del mundo, incluido el MoMA, el Metropolitan Museum of Art y el Centre Pompidou, y ha sido exhibido en el Museo Peggy Guggenheim de Venecia, en la Bienal de São Paulo y en la fundación Aperture de Nueva York, entre otros espacios. Los premios recibidos por Rio Branco incluyen el Prix du Livre Photo del Encuentro Internacional de Fotografía de Arles y el Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: TASCHEN
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: multilingue
• ISBN 10: 3836572338
• ISBN 13: 9783836572330
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: TASCHEN GmbH; contact@taschen.com; ; Hohenzollernring 53. D; K�ln; 50672; Allemagne